The Campaign For DA

6.23.2017

Any Supreme Court opinion is flawless. No typos. Always grammatically correct. Every case cited down to the page is always spot on. That being said, a case released yesterday had a glaring error. (It was taken down and replaced within an hour.)

Oakland Raider QB Derek Carr received a 5 year deal at $25 million a year yesterday making him the highest paid NFL player. Sixteen years ago, the Rangers agreed to paid Alex Rodriguez $25.2 million a year for 10 years. Buy your kid a baseball.

The NBA draft was last night. Let's flashback to pre-draft in 1984:

I apologize that it took me 48 hours to link to the Official Liberally Lean Girl on the beach.

It's been a while since I've dogged Dennis Prager (which always angers his one fan which reads Liberally Lean.) I saw this yesterday. I always prefer that if an angry, old white man is going to lecture me on race relations that he be holding a cigar as he does so.

I've had two people tell me I should watch Netflix's The Keepersbecause it will get me riled up. (Side note: There was a time when we wondered if Netflix or Blockbuster would win that all important DVD rental war.)

Well, the Senate rolled out their revised TrumpCare bill yesterday, and it's already in trouble. The left hates it because it tries to kill Medicaid. The far right hates it because it is basically a slightly watered down ObamaCare. (Ted Cruz is against it. Mike Lee is against it. Radio host Mark Levin was screaming about how it was 95% Obamacare. And local radio host Mark Davis said it wasn't a conservative bill.)

So on May 12th, Trump tweeted: “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” So why did it take him until yesterday to say the following? What was the purpose of the May 12th tweet?

Former Arizona State coach Frank Kush died yesterday. He had accumulated a tremendous 176-54-1 record in 21½ seasons when he was fired for allegedly covering up striking a punter on his team. Eventually all was forgiven and he had an office at ASU up until the time of his death.

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If all Democrats vote against the Senate healthcare bill, three Republicans need to defect for the bill to fail. In addition to Cruz and Lee, Paul of Kentucky and Johnson of Wisconsin have all presently agreed to vote “no” unless there are amendments.

Another group of Republican senators who may defect are Collins of Maine, Capito of West Virginia, Murkowski of Alaska, Heller of Nevada, and Portman of Ohio. These senators are either from Republican states that rely heavily on Medicare and Medicaid, which will be gutted under the Senate bill, or are Republican senators from Democratic states.

Substantively, under the Senate bill, employers will no longer be required to offer health insurance. The Senate bill will limit the availability of subsidies, originally designed to help middle or low income Americans purchase insurance. It also will enact deep cuts to Medicaid. It will phase out the expansion planned by the ACA and additionally cut areas designed to help children, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and elderly people. Employers will no longer be required to offer health insurance which is 49% of those who hold insurance.

The vast majority of Texas nursing home residents are paid through Medicaid. If the Senate bill makes it all the way to law, you will see a meltdown when families have to pull Grandma out of the facility and take her home. NO average family can afford the skilled nursing help that would be required. People may not be up in arms right now, but watch the torches get ignited if this happens.

If a whole bunch of people want to spend a whole bunch of their own money handing over "revenue" in the form of ticket purchases, jerseys, suites and sponsorships to a university athletic program...I'm trying to figure out the problem with that.

The reason for the May 12 tweet is obvious to everyone except the Trump Idiots: Trump intended to intimidate Comey, no question. This snob thinks he's above the law and do whatever he wants. And too many in this country are willing to let him.

I'm more concerned about the 1858 children (aged 0-17) that have been killed by gun violence in this country this year already than I am some Muslim "boogeyman" who would like it if you would get the "f..." out his country.

@10:00 - are you slow? Trump knew what was said in his meeting with Comey and wanted to make sure that Comey did his best at repeating the conversation accurately to the committee. If Comey thought there might be tapes, he would certainly not want to lie. Trump, out Trumped Comey.

I just love that you morons think the man that speaks at a 5th grade level is "outsmarting" anyone. I firmly believe Trump had no hand in anything Russia did; he isn't smart enough to pull something like that off, and way too egotistical to not then brag about it.

It must be hard for middle aged moms who once were pixie stars to accept getting older. It seems so silly when they take selfies and pictures and try to convince the public that they are, in fact, still 16 years old. Someone should tell them that it's OK to be just yourself; that NOBODY worth paying attention to expects them to be a kid.

Those on here defending trumps obstruction of justice show just how stupid the electorite has become. The man is a crook & a lier and is concerned with no one but himself & immediate family. That's why he still maintains shadow control over his business dealings. Some one else on here called it right: Trump Chumps.

All health care plans will fail because we in the U.S. have too many unhealthy people and people that can't contribute to the costs of their own healthcare. On an island with 19 healthy, active, productive residents, it's not so hard if the 20th resident has met with ill health or misfortune and needs lifelong support with free coconuts, help building a shelter and fish from the day's catch. We are the opposite of that. Can't compare the U.S. with Canada, or Norway, or Japan or other places where it kind of works, when you're there, you can actually see that the average person is just a whole lot less obese and more active and seemingly healthier.

I know some folks have heard the Fake News this week that warmer oceans from supposed climate change is driving sharks closer to shore, hence the more frequent attacks like the woman who lost her arm snorkeling in the Bahamas last week. First, did anyone see her go in the water with two arms? Is there video of an actual shark removing said alleged arm? Maybe it was a barracuda. Maybe it was an angry tuna. All I know is that people should not be avoiding a pleasant dip in the sea because of this misinformation and lies about sharks. We welcome all large, flabby, slow swimming mammals to take a pleasant dip in the ocean. Come on, President Trump! Show America the way and spend a day at the beach this weekend with a nice relaxing ocean swim.

My wife and I drove by the new Loves and I told her about berrys one man and a hammer....and she cracked up......but she's commented several times how true is his comment. We're just never goona get to taste that Arby burger....